Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Health Care and The Human Body

Henk A.M.J. Ten Have

Medicine, symbolization and the “real” body — Lacan's understanding of medical science

Hub Zwart

The fallibility of medical judgment as a consequence of the inexactness of observations

Joachim Widder

Suffering and the goals of medicine

Stan van Hooft

What are heart attacks? Rethinking some aspects of medical knowledge

David Greaves

Codes and morals: Is there a missing link? (The Nuremberg Code revisited)

Christian Hick

Is health care a need?

Eric Matthews

May a dentist refuse to treat an HIV-positive patient?

Jos V.M. Welie

Towards comparative bioethics

José Mainetti

Herold, R., Keim, J., König, H. & Walker, C. (eds.): 1997, Ich bin doch krank und nicht verrückt. Moderne Leiden. Das verleugnete und unbewusste Subjekt in der Medizin

Martin Dornberg

Byrd, B.S., Hruschka, J. & Joerden, J.C. (eds.): 1996, Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik; Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Band 4

Friedrich Heubel

Elliott, C.: 1996, The Rules of Insanity; Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill Offender

Frank Kortmann

Sulmasy, D.P.: 1997, The Healer's Calling. A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals

Marc Desmet

Dworkin, R.B.: 1996, Limits: The Role of Law in Bioethical Decision Making

Maria Patrão-Neves

Bowling, A.: 1997, Measuring Health; a Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales (2nd ed.)

Andrew Edgar

Zucker, M.B. & Zucker, H.D. (eds.): 1997, Medical Futility and the Evaluation of Life-sustaining Interventions

Meinolfus Strätling

Warren, M.A.: 1998, Moral Status. Obligations to Persons and other Living Things

Andreas Frewer

Barlösius, E.: 1997, Naturgemässe Lebensführung – Zur Geschichte der Lebensreform um die Jahrhunder-twende

Volker Roelcke

Minogue, B.P, Palmer-Fernández, G. & Reagan, J.E. (eds.): 1997, Reading Engelhardt; Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Zbigniew Zalewski

Bond, E.J.: 1996, Ethics and Human Well-Being

Michael Quante

Keown, J. (ed.): 1995, Euthanasia Examined; Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives

Judith Lee Kissell

Flynn, E.P. 1997, Issues in Medical Ethics

Roberto Mordacci

Bühring, M.: 1997, Naturheilkunde; Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Ziele

Joachim Widder

Vincent, C. & Furnham, A.: 1997, Complementary Medicine. A Research Perspective

Martin Dornberg

Benson, H.: 1997, Heilung durch Glauben; die Beweise, Selbstheilung in der neuen Medizin

Hans Meissner

Hurd, J.P. (ed.): 1996, Investigating the Biological Foundations of Human Morality

Andreas Vieth

ESPMH News Report of the 10th General Assembly

Activities

Books received

Ethics and palliative care: Advanced European bioethics course

VIII. European bioethics seminar: Health care issues in pluralistic societies

13th annual conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Medicine and Health Care